Casa de Refugio Para Jovencitas Pictures

On Friday, we made our last trip into Juarez to visit the Casa de Refugio Para Jovencitas. This was probably the most emotional day for all of us as the stories told were heart wrenching. If you want to read about it, you can see my blog posts: Casa de Refugio. Here are the pictures (and as I've said before, if you want to see a bigger version, just click on the picture - just be sure to click the "back" button to return to the blog):

The team from Boise with the IFM staff just before getting on the bus for our last day in Juarez.

Maricruz runs the Casa de Refugio; she told us about the ministry and herself.



Some of our team, on the left side of the table, getting to know the girls.

Everyone busy working on the craft.

Tami shared a message from her heart and these are the girls that responded to her call to accept Christ as their Lord and Savior.

Given Spanish New Testaments to the new sisters in Christ.

Karen again took pictures of the girls. This is a picture Cameron took.

After we gave the girls prints of their pictures, many were embarrassed by their picture.

Though they were always ready to pose for a picture.

Cameron was always making new friends. Today it was Luis who was the son of one of the girls in the home. Luis is four years old - if I remember, his mom is 15.

We all went to an upstairs room where we first introduced our team and then several girls shared their testimonies.

Several girls did an interpretive dance. It spoke to the life on the streets they were leaving and relying on God.

The girl on the right is sharing her story. It was a heart wrenching story. She talked about losing her child because of her issues and how much she wanted her baby back.

Carrying each others burdens...

One last picture.

I have some videos as well - next I'm going to try to pull a few short clips and put them on the blog so check back in the next few days for that. Happy Resurrection Day to everyone!